this patch did indeed do the trick.
I found a wealth of references to Storable
in the mailing archives, and as it turned
out, I recognized/remembered most of them..
my apologies for spamming the list.
-ldb
> At 9:04 PM -0800 4/4/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >Does anyone have the "Storable" module
> >working on their 5.6.0 VMS/Alpha Perl?
>
> Dunno whether this is your problem specifically, but the following
> patch is definitely necessary to run Storable:
>
> <http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/vmsperl/2000-09/msg00140.html>
>
> >the file gets created, but w/ the
> >string "pst0" only.
>
> The write probably terminates early because there is a null byte in
> the data somewhere and our fwrite() replacement didn't handle it
> properly before the patch above. Let us know if the patch does the
> trick; unfortunately it means rebuilding Perl.
> --
> ____________________________________________
> Craig A. Berry
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
